brownfields

Brownfield

1. Unused land previously utilized for industrial or other commercial purposes, especially land that is polluted or otherwise contaminated. Municipalities and private businesses sometimes attempt to clean up brownfields and/or find new uses for them.

2. More generally, land no longer in use. The term in this sense is most common the United Kingdom and Australia.

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According to the Environmental Protection Agency,“a brownfield is a property, the expansion,redevelopment,or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance,pollutant,or contaminant.”The EPA's Brownfields program (initiated in 1995) supplies local grants to support revitalization efforts by funding environmental assessment, cleanup,and job-training activities.

The new grant program will make over $9 million in City funds available over the next several years to fund environmental investigations, environmental cleanups, and brownfield planning by community based organizations throughout the City.

The program will be administered by the Office of Environmental Remediation, a new office established by Mayor Bloomberg in June 2008 to implement the brownfield goals of PlaNYC, the City's long-term vision for a greener, greater New York.

Even EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, a forceful advocate of cutting back federal environmental protection, has voiced support of the brownfields program, calling it "(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/02/heres-one-part-of-epa-that-the-agencys-new-leader-wants-to-protect/?utm_term=.421631ebcd86) absolutely essential ." When the agency released US$56 million in brownfield grants in May, Pruitt (https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/announcing-award-568-million-fy17-brownfields-assessment-and-cleanup-grants) lauded the program for "improving local economies and creating an environment where jobs can grow."

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